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it seems its more likely caused by the GFX drivers than anything else, but it's not happening when RP9 is not present. It happens sometimes though.

Also, is there any possibility to have something like "save states" in video game emulators, i.e when windows boots up, you store that state somwehre, and later on if resources get drained etc. you use that state to restore normal operation of things ? It would probably require one to shut off all programs that are running...

...and when there's any window open from Miranda IM, the RPconfig will not become visible.

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Posted 06 February 2010 - 04:17 AM

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When I am using Bear and the original WIN 98SE Ressource Meter at the same time, I get 3 times the same values, but the values for GDI and User Ressiruces are inverted in two programs. Very strange !
How can I know what is the real GDI usage and what is User ressources usage ?

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Posted 17 March 2010 - 02:33 PM

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Beta1 is still the most stable release.

I don't know, how you can say that. I tried B1 and 2, they both sucks, hanging my PC almost every time I click on any icon on the desktop or open a program window from Tray. Tihiy appears to abandon all his projects without finishing long time ago. May be someone would be interested to pickup where he left, fix the bugs and finish the project. It looks like a valuable tool to me, if working correctly. I've RP 9.1 installed and working OK, but taking even more dedicated memory (which is tiny by default) than without it.

Tihiy

Posted 19 March 2010 - 02:05 PM

Tihiy appears to abandon all his projects without finishing long time ago.

Well not really. I just shifted focus to other things (KernelEx for example). There is no point releasing new betas unless this thing is stable; finishing this thing requires dedicating extreme effort which is not feasible for me. I'm sorry for that, but I never claimed this thing as usable. I don't see critical problems with RP9 so your point is invalid.

animalid

Posted 29 March 2011 - 02:14 AM

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Any idea where i can download rpXbeta1.zip?
I wanted to test it on Opera since at least one of pages that i visit have so much graphical and flash content,
that it freezes my pc (with 768MB RAM).
All links that are in this topic show error 404.

RetroOS

Posted 10 June 2011 - 10:48 PM

Hello Tihiy and hello dear win9x forum!The GDI heap extender beta 1 or 2 can be installed over the RP9.7.2 or only over RP9.1.0?Thank you.I41Mar

This project was a test release for RP 9.1.0.Newer RP versions like 9.7.2 replace most of the files from this test release with different and newer builds.So, to directly answer your question, it can only be used with RP 9.1.0.Newer RP releases have some heap optimisation technology built in that does improve resource use.Not as much as this test release, but at least it is stable.

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jds

Posted 27 June 2011 - 12:32 AM

They were given by Tihiy and dencorso,but with the heap optimisation built in last RP (and KernelEx?), do we actually need them?

BTW jds, Tihiy said later that it is inadvisable to allow more than 4 MB to GDIMaxHeapSize as it may deplete too much selectors.

Thanks for the heads-up about that selectors thing, even if I don't quite know what it means.

However, Tihiy didn't specifically say that setting the heap limit above 4M would cause a problem, simply that RP10 would default to 4M and that setting too high a limit may deplete selectors. How high a limit would cause problems is not specified, although we can infer that it is somewhere above 4M. Anyway, I'm still learning these old tricks and simply report my finding, that setting the limit to 8M (on two machines now) has made a noticeable improvement to stability.

jds

Posted 28 June 2011 - 02:18 AM

However, Tihiy didn't specifically say that setting the heap limit above 4M would cause a problem

You are right.For my part, I have tried with 4 MB for USER & GDI and doesn't see a real difference.

So, Tihiy if you are here what would you recommend currently for those tricks? (with last builds of RP & KernelEx already installed).

Well, if you use RP, this defaults to 4MB for the GDI heap, so setting this explicitly would make no difference.

As for myself, I should mention that I'm running KernelEx but not RP. Since RP has an inbuilt version of the "GDI Heap Extender", the GDI heap requirements would be lower than for a system without RP (such as mine). I should also mention that 8MB was the one and only setting I've tried, it is possible that a 4MB setting would also be sufficient to exhibit markedly improved stability.

dencorso

Posted 10 April 2012 - 12:27 AM

They were given by Tihiy and dencorso,but with the heap optimisation built in last RP (and KernelEx?), do we actually need them?

BTW jds, Tihiy said later that it is inadvisable to allow more than 4 MB to GDIMaxHeapSize as it may deplete too much selectors.

Thanks for the heads-up about that selectors thing, even if I don't quite know what it means.

However, Tihiy didn't specifically say that setting the heap limit above 4M would cause a problem, simply that RP10 would default to 4M and that setting too high a limit may deplete selectors. How high a limit would cause problems is not specified, although we can infer that it is somewhere above 4M. Anyway, I'm still learning these old tricks and simply report my finding, that setting the limit to 8M (on two machines now) has made a noticeable improvement to stability.

Joe.

Well, there is a problem... While I used 16M for both GDIMaxHeapSize and USERMaxHeapSize, I had this issue, which went away when I fell back to 4096. However, since RP calls the Windows native LDT cleanup when LDT is lower than 20%, you won't normally notice that issue, except for the red light. But it's much better to avoid having the LDT cleanup routine (which Tihiy deems not that effective anyway) called more sparingly, to avoid unnecessary system processing, so 4M is the best value to use for both.

jds

Posted 13 April 2012 - 08:26 AM

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However, Tihiy didn't specifically say that setting the heap limit above 4M would cause a problem, simply that RP10 would default to 4M and that setting too high a limit may deplete selectors. How high a limit would cause problems is not specified, although we can infer that it is somewhere above 4M. Anyway, I'm still learning these old tricks and simply report my finding, that setting the limit to 8M (on two machines now) has made a noticeable improvement to stability.

Well, there is a problem... While I used 16M for both GDIMaxHeapSize and USERMaxHeapSize, I had this issue, which went away when I fell back to 4096. However, since RP calls the Windows native LDT cleanup when LDT is lower than 20%, you won't normally notice that issue, except for the red light. But it's much better to avoid having the LDT cleanup routine (which Tihiy deems not that effective anyway) called more sparingly, to avoid unnecessary system processing, so 4M is the best value to use for both.

A Suffusion of Red?

Thanks for those numbers, Den. I've been using GDIMaxHeapSize=8192 on all my W98SE machines for some months now, to good effect. As for USERMaxHeapSize, I've not been able to set this anyway, from what I've read, this is a string variable in "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop", yet there seems no effect whatever value is used for it.

dencorso

Posted 13 April 2012 - 11:07 AM

A Suffusion of Red indeed!
USERMaxHeapSize does work, but it seems, most if not all our resource issues stem just from too little a GDIMaxHeapSize, so it seems to do nothing. And thanks for reporting 8M works! I understand you've got no red light from it, right?

loblo

Posted 13 April 2012 - 11:50 AM

most if not all our resource issues stem just from too little a GDIMaxHeapSize, so it seems to do nothing.

Here it's always been the user resources that have been the main problem and that's why I deeply regret Tihiy didn't finally implement user salvation in RP (as gdi salvation works wonders).

Btw, if you can get your hands on some copy of the old McAffee Nuts & Bolts utilities (sold under various names and packaging), you'll find in it the WinGauge monitoring utility, which is AFAIK (you'll let me know if this is wrong) the only utility showing separately the use of the 16bit and 32bit resource heaps. It also shows use of GDT and LDT (GDT is never an issue).

And Dencorso, I don't think it's accurate at all to say that too little a GDIMaxHeapSize is the main issue with resources as this the 32bit heap and when things go wrong, in my observation, it's always because of the depletion of the 16bit heaps which are limited to 64k.

dencorso

Posted 13 April 2012 - 12:17 PM

RP does have a rudimentary form of USER salvation. In its current form, RP does reduce the USER issue some.But the full-fledged version of it that remains just a wish, regretably...

Revolutions Pack 9.5.0 RClol just 1 year for new release<snip>

[General]* New: RP has been re-architected and partially rewritten into C to improve reliability and performance* New: system libraries shared memory (IAT) is protected from damaging* New: a load of user32 functions were rewritten to reduce resource usage, improve system performance and stability* Critical fix: parts of RP functionality could become disabled if shared libraries were swapped out* Lots of minor changes

jds

Posted 14 April 2012 - 05:47 AM

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A Suffusion of Red indeed! USERMaxHeapSize does work, but it seems, most if not all our resource issues stem just from too little a GDIMaxHeapSize, so it seems to do nothing. And thanks for reporting 8M works! I understand you've got no red light from it, right?

Well, I deleted RP due to its messing up my quick launch / task bar. So I can't say about the coloured lights, however, see below ...

Here it's always been the user resources that have been the main problem and that's why I deeply regret Tihiy didn't finally implement user salvation in RP (as gdi salvation works wonders).

Btw, if you can get your hands on some copy of the old McAffee Nuts & Bolts utilities (sold under various names and packaging), you'll find in it the WinGauge monitoring utility, which is AFAIK (you'll let me know if this is wrong) the only utility showing separately the use of the 16bit and 32bit resource heaps. It also shows use of GDT and LDT (GDT is never an issue).

And Dencorso, I don't think it's accurate at all to say that too little a GDIMaxHeapSize is the main issue with resources as this the 32bit heap and when things go wrong, in my observation, it's always because of the depletion of the 16bit heaps which are limited to 64k.

Well, I'd not heard of Mcafee "Nuts & Bolts" nor "WinGauge" before, however, I've managed to track down an evaluation copy at some academic/teaching site :

Anyway, after figuring out how to use "WinGauge" (wgpro32.exe), I'm impressed by the range of parameters it can monitor or report. Your assertion that the 16-bit GDI and User resources are most critical seems to be true. As I write this, the 16-bit versions are showing about 40% usage, whereas the 32-bit versions are showing less than 10% usage. However, resource leakage hasn't occurred (much) yet, so that situation may change. Also, GDT shows 1% usage and LDT shows 37% usage.

jds

Posted 25 May 2012 - 03:30 AM

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And Dencorso, I don't think it's accurate at all to say that too little a GDIMaxHeapSize is the main issue with resources as this the 32bit heap and when things go wrong, in my observation, it's always because of the depletion of the 16bit heaps which are limited to 64k.

Loblo, now that I've been able to try WinGauge on a number of occasions, I can confirm what you say. With my settings for GDIMaxHeapSize, it's always the 16 bit GDI or User resources that run out when W98 leaks.